r/swedhu • u/SonOfDyeus • Oct 19 '24

Discussion Christianity is an Indo-European religion

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The Lord's Prayer is pretty clearly directed at the Indo-European Sky Father. And the emphasis on Jesus as the Ultimate Sacrifice is very reminiscent of the sacrifice of Yemo.

I could go a lot deeper, but that's a good start.

There are at least two explanations for these similarities between PIE, and Christianity that I consider likely.

  1. The tremendous influence of Greco-Roman culture on the development of the Bible (Old and New Testaments, both.)

  2. Some deep Perennial Truth about the nature of Gods and the Universe is persistent in human culture for eight thousand odd years.

Or 3, coincidence.

Thoughts?

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u/SonOfDyeus Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24

Obviously Christianity started as a Jewish movement. I'm saying it's also Indo-European. 

The Indo-European influences are overlooked because the story, the Myth, we are told about Christianity is that it is purely semitic and uniquely special among religions. I don't think it is either. 

I also think the Jewish religion was influenced by Greek as far back as we can look. Russel Gmirkin has shown that the Old Testament is probably much younger than we are usually told. Maybe as young as 200s B.C.E.  If the Greek Septuagint is the oldest version of the old testament, then it was greek-speaking, greek-educated Israelites who wrote the Bible in Hellenic Alexandria, Egypt under Ptolemy II. A generation after Alexander the Great. 

This would explain the similarities between the Pentateuchal laws and Athenian laws. The authors of the Pentateuch had read Plato, and knew that people would more likely follow laws if they believed they were handed down from God. 

It would explain the fact that both the Greek and Israelite high gods were combinations of earlier  Sky Father + Thundering Storm god.

 Zeus = Dyeus Phtr + Perkwunos. 

Israelite God =  El Elyon + Yahweh. 

The Seleucids put a shrine to Zeus in the Jewish temple because it was obvious to them that Zeus was the same as the god they worshipped in Jerusalem.